Techie Talks

While trying to fix one of our user’s IT issue remotely, I had to turn off Windows firewall which was set to Public. Users account does not have appropriate permission to make any changes to the system or run a command prompt. When I tried to make a RDP connection, it failed due to Public firewall is enabled. I tried below Netsh command to turn off firewall on remote PC but it didn’t work. Netsh –r 192.168.1.15 –u admin –p Password –c advfirewall set allprofiles state off Then, I learnt about PsExec command. PsExec is a light-weight telnet replacement that allows users to run programs executable files on remote machines. First, you will have to download PSTools. Click Here to download it. Once you’ve downloaded PSTools, unzip the file and copy PsExec to executable path. I copied file to C:\. Run following command to turn off filewall on remote PC using PsExec: C:\> psexec ComputerName –u username –p password cmd ComputerName  - replace it with the r

Today, I installed a Ubuntu server 16.04 LTS on my test lab. I installed it as a virtual machine on my Hyper-V host. When installation finished, I was presented with the server Core edition. As I am fairly new to Linux OS, I wanted to have Graphical User Interface (GUI). I went on Internet to find a way to convert my Core server to GUI. I learnt that I need to install ubuntu-desktop package to have GUI. sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop When I ran this command, I got a following error message: E: Unable to locate package update After doing a bit of a research, I found out that I will have to run some more commands to upgrade current package list before trying to install desktop version. I used following command to have GUI version of Ubuntu server. Use following command to upgrade packages installed on your PC or update your all system. When Prompted, type Y and press Enter key. Sudo apt-get upgrade Once you've upgraded your system, run this com